Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I insist on paying for this interview , although there 's nothing further for you to do at present . ’ |
| 2 | That was the compliment I got for putting on red nail varnish . |
| 3 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 4 | I juggle between putting on lucrative foreign language courses for the business world and at the same time offering a flexible service to the community , while maintaining and promoting tutors . |
| 5 | The only alleviating point in the walk was the number of pretty women and girls ; so as I delight in looking at such , I very rudely looked into the eyes of those that passed . |
| 6 | Even if those figures are reduced by the two million each year that leaves a very large financial mountain to climb in the years ahead and I apologise for beginning with that gloomy prognosis but it does get better , thanks to our proposals . |
| 7 | At the end of this necessarily lengthy examination of the decided cases I have found nothing which causes me to depart from the view I expressed before embarking on that examination as to the appropriate procedure to be followed under section 7(3) and section 8(2) considered simply on the basis of the statutory language . |
| 8 | I refer to trading in stolen documents with the Labour party — a practice that has not , I believe , yet been condemned by that party . |
| 9 | but erm , you know , I remember as coming across one or two obstacles and I could n't get in to it I thought if I 'd tried a bit harder , I did n't want to start you know so |
| 10 | John Pullen , of London Zoo , said : ‘ There 's no way a chimp could understand which company to go for , it has to be complete luck — but then what I understand of trading in that way sounds like complete luck half the time . ’ |
| 11 | I feel like complaining about that |
| 12 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 13 | So if for any reason I feel like adding on some points I will do , and equally I 'll decide to take some points off if I feel like it . |
| 14 | Sometimes I go without crying for some while and then I go through phases of crying rather a lot . |
| 15 | I thought about sending for that |
| 16 | ‘ I went into teaching at 21 because I liked working with children . |
| 17 | I took to sleeping in all my clothes in my sleeping bag , and managed to get away with not undressing for ten days . |
| 18 | I learned about flying from that |
| 19 | I learned about flying from that . |
| 20 | I learned about flying from that |
| 21 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 22 | I need to looking for one person , someone . |